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Agree with your sentiment here - not every non-technical founder is out to get you with MBA jargon. My co-founder is non-technical, but he's a subject matter expert (he's a physician).

I know several non-technical founders of multi-hundred-million / billion dollar startups. Common thread is that these people are really knowledgeable about a particular industry or subject (ie. sewer inspection, restaurant bulk food ordering, mortgage underwriting). The combo of someone who intimately understands the pain points of an industry partnered with a technical founder is a good one.

August Health | Frontend Engineer | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

We're looking for an experienced frontend developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex, consumer-facing applications.

  - Technologies we use & expect you to have significant experience in: React, TypeScript.
  - Technologies we use, but don't expect you to have experience in: Scala/Play, Protobuf, Postgres

Our development team is a small group of capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.

Stuff we'd look for:

  - 4+ years professional experience as a software engineer familiar with building customer facing frontends
  - Ability and desire to mentor other engineers
  - Ability to thrive in a startup environment that’s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no ‘right’ answer
  - Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team
  - Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices

Our team of seven has technical, healthcare and company-building backgrounds. We have prior experience at companies like Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe. Together, we’ve co-founded and exited multiple companies, managed large engineering and product teams, shipped features used by hundreds of millions of users, and led clinical teams supporting thousands of patients. We are very well funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors and are working with some of the largest senior care organizations in the country.

erez AT augusthealth.com

Having been in a many Assisted Living buildings, I would echo this sentiment. Some homes are run by incredibly caring and thoughtful staff and could be the right home for a loved one. It's not for everybody, but as healthcare needs rise, it's definitely an option to be considered.

PS: check us out at augusthealth.com and reach out if this is a space you want to work in.

August Health | Frontend Engineer | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

### ABOUT US

August Health is an early-stage company that builds technology to enhance quality of care for vulnerable older adults. Our product is guiding the transition from complex, paper-based practices in the long-term care industry to a digital platform solution that unlocks the power of personalized care, predictive analytics, and value-based contracting.

### ABOUT THE JOB

We're looking for an experienced frontend developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex, consumer-facing applications.

- Technologies we use & expect you to have significant experience in: React, TypeScript. - Technologies we use, but don't expect you to have experience in: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Postgres

Our development team is a small group of capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.

### KEY QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years professional experience as a software engineer familiar with building customer facing frontends - Ability and desire to mentor other engineers - Ability to thrive in a startup environment that’s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no ‘right’ answer - Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team - Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices

### ABOUT OUR TEAM

Our team of seven has technical, healthcare and company-building backgrounds. We have prior experience at companies like Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe. Together, we’ve co-founded and exited multiple companies, managed large engineering and product teams, shipped features used by hundreds of millions of users, and led clinical teams supporting thousands of patients. We are funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors and are working with some of the largest senior care organizations in the Bay Area.

Contact: erez@augusthealth.com

August Health | (Senior) Backend Engineer | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

A demographic "perfect storm" is brewing over the next 25 years: (1) the 80+ population will double to more than 30 million people, (2) the family caregiver ratio will almost cut in half (and is further hurt as more children move away from their parents), and (3) as life expectancy rises, people are living for years with complex health issues and disability.

And annual long term care costs are about $400 billion today. Our goal is to make a significant difference in care quality for elders and put a dent in healthcare costs in the country.

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I’m a co-founder at August Health. We’re looking for engineers who: 1. Want to work on something that’s good for the world and 2. Care about engineering.

Right now we’re looking to hire an engineer to focus more on our backend APIs and infrastructure. We're using scala for those that like to search for keywords, but we don’t need you to have any experience with it, just ability to learn. You should have a few years experience under your belt. Email me: erez AT augusthealth.com

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Prior to this, we cofounded and sold a big-data mapping company, Mapsense, to Apple. Our team of 9 has a strong technical background and also includes a physician with years of experience with geriatric patients. We are well capitalized with financing from tier-1 VCs.

We’re a fully distributed team, deliberate about building our culture, offer competitive comp/benefits, and like to think we’re a fun place to work!

The US Census Bureau is releasing data using differential privacy for the first time this year - previous approaches to data obfuscation were prove-ably flawed. The State of Alabama is suing the bureau, challenging the use of differential privacy in the 2020 Census.

Would definitely recommend working with Tara, she is an incredible executor.

August Health | Senior Backend End Engineer | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time ABOUT THE ROLE:

We're looking for an experienced backend-end developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications. Some technologies we use (you wouldn't be expected to have experience in all this, just be able to pick it up): scala, protobuf, fhir, postgres.

Our development team is a small group of very capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults and the challenges of caregiving into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.

Email: erez@augusthealth.com

ABOUT US:

August Health is an early stage company that builds technology to transform quality of care for vulnerable older adults. Our product is guiding the transition from complex paper-based practices in the long-term care industry to a digital platform that improves care for elders and the caregivers who support them.

Our team has previous experience at Apple, Google, Adobe, and Landmark Health. Together, we’ve co-founded and exited multiple companies, managed large engineering and product teams, shipped features used by hundreds of millions of users, and led clinical teams supporting thousands of patients. We are funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors.

Uh oh. My post was flagged clearly by someone who didn’t read it or understand it was satire…

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My favorite part:

NO MORE TALKING ABOUT “MISTAKES”

I DONT MAKE MISTAKES SO I CERTAINLY DO NOT LIKE BEING REMINDED ABOUT THEM. REALLY THERES NO SUCH THING AS A MISTAKE, JUST CREATING OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN. AND ONCE LEARNED THERES NO POINT IN GOING BACK OVER IT AND THINKING ABOUT WHETHER THE “CORRECT” (WHAT DOES THAT WORD EVEN MEAN?) DECISION WAS MADE AT THE TIME, OR MAKING A CHANGE IN LIGHT OF NEW INFORMATION. LIVE IN THE NOW. AFTER ALL, THE PAST IS JUST A STORY WE TELL OURSELVES! LETS TELL BETTER STORIES.

This is a parody of the recent basecamp memo that’s on the front page right now.

https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5

A group of data privacy experts filed an amicus brief supporting the US Census Bureau in Alabama’s lawsuit challenging the use of differential privacy in the 2020 Census.

https://twitter.com/aloni_bologna/status/1385987124785262602...

At Mapsense we would always refer to Color Brewer https://colorbrewer2.org/. Basically takes the thinking out of the equation.

This book is more general, describing brain development, but there is a lot describing nerve/synapse development including myelination.

I give it to most of my new parent friends as a gift.

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Going-There-Brain-Develop/dp/05...

Love the sentiment behind the post - cooking is great life skill to get good at, but I think the "Essential Gear" is definitely far from "essential" (and maybe this will help the new cook from being too scared of the list).

Here's my version of the "minimum viable set": 1. big, sharp knife 2. cutting board 3. wooden spoon 4. pan.

IMO, the particularly dispensable: "instant read digital cooking thermometer", "micro-plane zester", "fish turner spatula", "large heat-safe glass measuring cup", "honing rod".

Again, still love the intention. Nice post!

August Health | Senior Front End Engineer / Tech Lead | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We're looking for an experienced front-end developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications. Ideally you would own the front-end architecture for major portions of our product and still be comfortable spending time on minor css details. You should also be interested in leadership - being responsible for managing timing and functionality of the front-end.

Our development team is a small group of very capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults and the challenges of caregiving into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.

Email: erez@augusthealth.com

ABOUT US:

August Health is an early stage company that builds technology to transform quality of care for vulnerable older adults. Our product is guiding the transition from complex paper-based practices in the long-term care industry to a digital platform that improves care for elders and the caregivers who support them.

Our team has previous experience at Apple, Google, Adobe, and Landmark Health. Together, we’ve co-founded and exited multiple companies, managed large engineering and product teams, shipped features used by hundreds of millions of users, and led clinical teams supporting thousands of patients. We are funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors.

At first I thought it was "Collection of GANs Written By Pytorch". Wow that would have been cool..

Why was this taken off the front page?

August Health | Product Designer | San Francisco or REMOTE (USA for now) | Full time

We're working on a new company to improve how people age in our country. A demographic "perfect storm" is brewing over the next 25 years: (1) the 80+ population will double to more than 30 million people, (2) the family caregiver ratio will almost cut in half (and is further hurt as more children move away from their parents), and (3) as life expectancy rises, people are living for years with complex health issues and disability.

And annual long term care costs are about $400 billion today. Our goal is to make a significant difference in care quality for elders and put a dent in healthcare costs in the country.

>> We are looking for a full-time product designer as one of our earliest full time hires. The right fit is an end-to-end product designer who can span user-research to full resolution mocks - a longer job description is at augusthealth.com

Prior to this, we cofounded and sold a big-data mapping company, Mapsense, to Apple. Our team of 7 has a strong technical background and also includes a physician with years of experience with geriatric patients. We recently raised a round of financing from tier-1 VCs.

The first few hires for a company set the engineering practices, philosophy, culture for the future - and we are looking for people who are excited by these parts of company building in addition to the technical parts.

Got it, didn't realize it was to the first business day. Thanks!

August Health | Front End Engineer, HTML+CSS Guru | San Francisco or REMOTE | Full time

We're working on a new company to improve how people age in our country.

A demographic "perfect storm" is brewing over the next 25 years: (1) the 80+ population will double to more than 30 million people, (2) the family caregiver ratio will almost cut in half (and is further hurt as more children move away from their parents), and (3) as life expectancy rises, people are living for years with complex health issues and disability.

And annual long term care costs are about $400 billion today. Our goal is to make a significant difference in care quality for elders and put a dent in healthcare costs in the country.

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We're looking for a founding front-end developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications. Our team has a pretty technical background and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped.

We are also on the lookout for somebody who can turn high fidelity mockups into (non-functional) html+css components that other developers can run with. This person should be excited getting into the weeds of tiny design details and the know-how to use well-formed css to make them real.

Please email erez AT augusthealth.com.

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Prior to this, we cofounded and sold a big-data mapping company, Mapsense, to Apple. Our team of 7 has a strong technical background and also includes a physician with years of experience with geriatric patients. We recently raised a round of financing from tier-1 VCs.

The first few hires for a company set the engineering practices, philosophy, culture for the future - and we are looking for people who are excited by these parts of company building in addition to the technical parts.

We're using react for those that like to search for keywords, but it probably shouldn't be that important.

Oh yeah, forgot that! Let me update..

August Health | Experienced Software Engineers, Designer | San Francisco or REMOTE | Full time

We're working on a new company to improve how people age in our country.

A demographic "perfect storm" is brewing over the next 25 years: (1) the 80+ population will double to more than 30 million people, (2) the family caregiver ratio will almost cut in half (and is further hurt as more children move away from their parents), and (3) as life expectancy rises, people are living for years with complex health issues and disability.

And annual long term care costs are about $400 billion today. Our goal is to make a significant difference in care quality for elders and put a dent in healthcare costs in the country.

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We're looking for some founding engineers to join us, both frontend and backend - especially those with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications. Our team has a pretty technical background and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped.

We recognize the power of design and are also planning to have a designer as one of our first full time hires. We're looking for an end-to-end product designer who can span user-research to full resolution mocks.

Please email erez AT augusthealth.com.

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Prior to this, we cofounded and sold a big-data mapping company, Mapsense, to Apple. Our team of 5 has a strong technical background and also includes a physician with years of experience with geriatric patients. We recently raised a round of financing from tier-1 VCs.

The first few hires for a company set the engineering practices, philosophy, culture for the future - and we are looking for people who are excited by these parts of company building in addition to the technical parts.

We're using scala and react for those that like to search for keywords, but it probably shouldn't be that important.

Agreed! I just thought this was such a powerful line.

TLDR: “Conway was arguably an extreme point in the convex hull of all mathematicians. He will very much be missed.”

The ads on this page are ridiculous. Here’s a link to the actual op-ed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bill-gates-heres-how...

Here's another take for actually placing labels on the map (and not out at the boundary): https://patents.google.com/patent/US10102669B2/. (Disclosure, I'm one of the authors of this approach.)

The patent is kind of hard to read, but the basic idea is to choose a number of labels in a region (ie. a map-tile) by the relative density of labels in that region to surrounding ones and then sample them according to some ranking. This preserves relative density so that more populated areas visually have more labels. This works for data too, not just map labels.

Hi! I was one of the volunteers on the project. While some of us are based out of state, we're working with a bunch of folks on the ground in Texas, both local hackers and community organizers.

Also the goal of the tool (and all it does) is help register people to vote.

There is a lot of advice on the thread saying: take the money. Given your personal situation etc. this may very well be the right choice.

But you need to realize that just because you've been approached for acquisition and even if somebody tells you straight up "we want to acquire you", it sounds like you are far away from actually getting acquired. The road from casual interest to money in the bank is long and bumpy.

Unless you actually have a term-sheet in your inbox, you aren't in the position to make this decision right now.

The right tactical approach is for you to push hard on both fronts - push as hard as possible on fundraising as if you have no other option. And if you do want to consider an acquisition, start approach these companies and ask for term sheet.

If both go well, then you have a decision to make.. (and more leverage..)

I've hired somebody directly from a who's hiring post.

This was the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7830111.

The developer was remote - we did a couple of phone screens and sent a contract over within a week or two. I still work with him and he's one of the best engineers I know.

You could have a toggle where you divide by the overall population of each city. So basically let the user switch between percentage and absolute.

Another ranking to consider is the h-index metric for academic papers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index), where you use the number of members of each meetup group in place of citations. So a city with a score h has h meetups each of which has at least h members.